Maroon

Red is a part of primary color which create a lot of spark for its combination such as maroon with intensity. Passion, love, anger, energy and danger as the general definition behind the color. However, maroon also take an important part in religion system in this case Buddhism, maroon can even conjure feelings of spirituality, wisdom or calmness.

Then, according to color psychology, maroon is associated with control, responsibility and thoughtfulness.

Maroon is also a color with a strong historical background since the name “maroon” was first used in the English language in 1789. It’s derived from marron, the French word for chestnut, a nut that is a deep reddish brown in appearance. At that time, maroon is a popular color choice in uniforms for both schools and sporting teams, where it’s often paired with white, grey or gold. It’s also the color of the robes worn by Vajrayana Buddhist monks, such as the Dalai Lama.

Furthermore, maroon is also a symbol of fall season with the color of the leaf of muted brown and red combination in faint saturation. These faint saturation can be interpreted as a versatile color that can be used to increase people appetite and can add warmth to space also work well as an accent color especially when it comes to design.

Moreover, from all the interpretation we can see that maroon has no limitation when it comes to its definition start from color perspective to the season. However, maroon can goes beyond our logic when it relate to how we define maroon either as color or a symbol for how we play our parts in our life history with the value of spirituality, wisdom, control and calmness.

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